Day: April 11, 2014

Author: William Krist Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press – 283 pages Book Review by: Paiso Jamakar If you study the history of economic growth of countries large and small, you will find that trade was an important, if not essential, factor in their growth. Without the manufacture and sales of goods overseas, and the purchase of other goods that a country does not have or cannot produce, a country’s economic advancement is limited. As an example, if the countries in the Middle East had not been selling their oil, of which they have plenty, they would not have progressed...

Author: Andrew Quintman, PhD Publisher: Columbia University Press – 314 pages Book Review by: Laxmi Chaandi In this book, Andrew Quintman tells the story of the great Buddhist poet and saint Jetsun Milarepa (the eleventh-century ‘Lord of Yogins’) who lived between 1040 and 1123. One of his biographers Tsangnyon Heruka (1452-1507), the “Madman of Western Tibet,” wrote of Milarepa as a model of virtuosity in the Himalayan region. This book grew out of the author’s fascination – about 20 years ago – with the many aspects of the life of Milarepa, who was widely revered and written about in...